Iowa View: To lower student debt, raise community college enrollment

6:45 PM,
Mar. 8, 2014

Written by

Mark Hamilton

Iowa Board of Regents President Bruce Rastetter, with the support of Gov. Terry Branstad, is starting down a road to implement a major review of our state universities in the hope of finding efficiency savings, keeping tuition down and lowering student debt.

It is a pretty good idea.

The student debt issue alone is sounding long-overdue alarms as Iowa students graduate from state universities with over $28,000 in debt - the sixth-worst rating in the country. ...